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Re: wait(); and notify();

Please post your code in code tags.

Empty catch() {} blocks are useless and a bad practice. Fix that.

What is the wait() statement waiting for, and while it's waiting, what could possibly send a notify()? In other words, are multiple threads running independently, one waiting and one able to call notify()?